The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-17
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. Mary Hewitt is in excellent health at
the age of eighty-nine.
Mrs Louisa Knapp edits the Ladies' Home
Journal at salary of 5000 per year.
Frances E. Willari's book .'Woman ana Tom
perance." is being translated into Japanese
The annual meeting of the Indiana w C. T.
O. will be held in Richmond from the Goth Of
May to the Oath inclusive.
The women of Los Angeles, Cal. have COM
pleted large ard commodious Womans Home
for dependent and deserving women.
S. B. Chttenden gives 800. 900 to Yale College
for q new library building, upon condition that
the library shall be open to women. He is
believer in co-educaron.
Harriet Prescott Spofford says that the
nearest approach to a salon to be found in this
country is afforded by the Saturday evening re-
ceptions Of Miss Mary L. Booth, Of Harper's
Bazaar.
A correspondence exchange. known as the
Equity Club" has been organized among the
women law students and practitioners of the
United States by Martha <. Pearcs, of Chicago
The letters which will cover al. subjects Of
direct interest 70 the sisterhood will be published
in pamphlet form.
The Methodist women OF Lincoln, Nen., ask
the Nebraska Conference to cooperate in ear
nestly requesting that women may be appointed
Law delegates to the conference to be .isd in Lin
coin next fall. and to use their influence to
cure the appointment OF a woman delegate to the
lay general conference to be held in Brooklyn,
May, 1888.
DR. Mary F. Thomas. of Richmond, Ind, has
found IL necessary to resume the active practice
of medicine, and has given up her country home
and located again in the city. Although past sew
enty, this remarkable woman carries burden
of professional business home duties and philan-
thropic work that would tire most women thirty
years younger
A room has Just been beautifully furnished by
the W. C. T. u, of Memphis. Tenn, for the use
of shop girls at the noon hour. They are in
vited to bring their lunch and eat it together.
cup of tea will be furnished all who desire it.
One Of the attractions of the room is fine piano,
and some lady will be secured to provide music
each day. Occasionally short talk will be
given on hygiene or some other practical sub
| ject.
Mary L. Neal. the city missionary Of the In
dianapols ". c. T. u, who has been at work
since last August, reports that one crying need
| in this city is home where women who dis
! charged from the Reformatory and the hospital
could stay until they could find employment.
| They come away with good intentions, but CIR
| downward again to the lives from which they
| have been rescued.
There in New York city ninety trades open
to women. thlrty-eight OF which directly con-
] nected with clothing. Five thousand women are
/ employed in making feathers, and more upon
ma king flowers Several thousand are engaged
| on paper boxes: two thousand in sorting rags;
| four thousand in cigar making. which is largely
| carried on in tenement houses MANY of these
workers are literally the slaves of poverty Sew
| ing women work fourteen hours. and the cloak
| makers sixteen daily, their wages being barely
| sufficient to sustain life.